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General Software Discussion / Re: Jello Dashboard + OneNote as PIM/GTD tools - user experience/feedback/advice?

« Last post by barney on August 22, 2011, 11:34 PM »

Update.

I am aware of this, it used to work but I have no idea if as of now the 'trial' download is really what it was before.
http://blogs.office....or-onenote-2010.aspx

-rgdot (August 22, 2011, 09:42 PM)

Apparently not ... both the trial and Buy Now produce a MS page with product not found messages  .  Perhaps it's not released as a standalone any more  ?

-barney (August 22, 2011, 10:12 PM)

Even though I couldn't find a download link, MS used the data I had to submit to find that out to send me an email with a Product Key for OneNote 2010.  However, when I used the link they provided, I was back at a [previously visited, I think] page to buy/trial Office 2010.  Seems not even MS can get this straight  .

OK, maybe if I'd clicked one of those Office links I'd have found it, but I'm just not willing to go on a scavenger hunt through MS's links.  If they provide it, it should be so provided, not used as a teaser to MS Office, nor should it be a puzzle.

The email I received for the trial Product Key stated a price for the standalone version.  OK, maybe I can go there, right?  Nope, back at the Office sales page. Fahh Shazbat  !

Funny thing is, I used to be a MS devotee <sigh />.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Jello Dashboard + OneNote as PIM/GTD tools - user experience/feedback/advice?

« Last post by barney on August 22, 2011, 10:12 PM »

I am aware of this, it used to work but I have no idea if as of now the 'trial' download is really what it was before.
http://blogs.office....or-onenote-2010.aspx

-rgdot (August 22, 2011, 09:42 PM)

Apparently not ... both the trial and Buy Now produce a MS page with product not found messages  .  Perhaps it's not released as a standalone any more  ?

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Living Room / Re: Samsung Galaxy tablet ... work for scripting?

« Last post by barney on August 22, 2011, 09:28 PM »

I may have misunderstood but isn't PHP normally used for server side scripting?

Or are you wanting to try and run a server on a Galaxy?

-Carol Haynes (August 22, 2011, 08:25 PM)

Please accept my apologies ... I made assumptions  .

Yeah, stated more succinctly, I do want to run a server on a Galaxy.  If it's going to replace my laptop - I kinda hope - that would be a requirement.  Doesn't have to be Apache/MySQL, just something equivalent.  Footprint will be an issue, I know, but it's conceivable that some of this could be physically housed on a USB device.  Of course, that assumes the tablet would have the ability - the horsepower, as it were - to run whatever is used.  That's an area where I've not been able to get a lot of info, hence this thread.

However, nothing I've researched says, one way or the other, whether that is feasible ... or even possible.  I'm not intending to make it a storage device, per se, just have enough space for demos.  Kinda like I do right now with one (1) of the laptops.  Just a demonstration vehicle, with enough room to make quick script adjustments.  Won't break my heart if it's not possible, but would kill a lot of the impetus to get a tablet.  I want a workhorse - workpony? - not a browser/music player/facebook/twitter tool  .

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General Software Discussion / Re: Jello Dashboard + OneNote as PIM/GTD tools - user experience/feedback/advice?

« Last post by barney on August 22, 2011, 08:17 PM »

You can buy OneNote standalone. You don't have to get it as part of Office.

-Jimdoria (August 22, 2011, 06:14 PM)

Not from any place I've found via search  .  I've seen many references to OneNote being standalone, but none of 'em included links to a $ource.  (Not pointing fingers, but your post is an example  .)  I don't mind paying for it, should it prove worthwhile, but every search for it that I've performed made Office a requirement.

[That's probably a reflection upon my search capabilities  .]

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Living Room / Samsung Galaxy tablet ... work for scripting?

« Last post by barney on August 22, 2011, 08:02 PM »

Folk,

I'm trying to find out if the Samsung Galaxy tablet(s), prolly the 10.1, can handle PHP scripting to a MySQL - or other, of course - database.  There's a lot of discussion 'bout what the Samsungs can do, but I've not found anything along these lines.

Point here is to be able to demo stuff on the fly, perhaps make script adjustments on location.  Yah, that can be done on a laptop, but the weight differential is significant, donchano, and there would be a certain impressiveness engendered.

The database would not have to be MySQL, any database that could be addressed via PHP/HTML/JavaScript code would suffice, as the point would be to make script adjustments, not copy database schemas or content.

Guess you could call it a [very] basic troubleshooting system/platform/tool  .

[Edit:  sorry, typos]

I'm assuming that someone here has already explored this avenue, and I'd very much like to benefit from the experiences gleaned.  What can I say ... I'm lazy  .

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General Software Discussion / Re: Stupid question ... what is the difference between != and <>?

« Last post by barney on August 22, 2011, 03:38 PM »

Hm, if that's true then there's either a bug in the PHP documentation (pretty likely) or a bug in the implementation (almost even more likely).

-f0dder (August 22, 2011, 02:48 PM)

Likely, the man says  .

Make that a certainty, methinks  .

I'd say the PHP docs are better than most - Apache docs make me wanna scream - but that's not saying much.  Did a stint as a tech writer in the corporate world.  If I'd submitted anything even close to most of the documentation I see in the open source arena - whether free or not - I'd have been canned on the spot!  And the current crop of docs for shareware/payware is pretty much on the same playing field.  Can we say, "Least common denominator?!?"

Anyway, I'm accustomed to the <> operator as opposed to the != operator, so that's what I'm using as I rewrite parts of this code.  It's not commented, so I'm doing a lot by intuition - and commenting to a point where Hell wouldn't have it  .  At least, the next guy won't wonder why I did something, although he may have serious questions along the lines of, "Why he do that"?

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General Software Discussion / Re: Jello Dashboard + OneNote as PIM/GTD tools - user experience/feedback/advice?

« Last post by barney on August 19, 2011, 12:11 AM »

Can't speak to either Jello Dashboard or OneNote, as they both require Office/Outlook, but I can speak, somewhat, to InfoSelect replacement.  I've been sampling myBase and WikeNotes with a fair amount of success.  WikeNotes is in its infancy, needs a number of improvements, but the author(s) would seem to be amenable to suggestion.  It's also free, so far.  myBase is ~half the price of IS, and will require a possibly significant time for study, but it's holding up well so far.

I know, this is not what you asked, but as a fellow former IS aficionado, I thought it worth mention  .

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Living Room / Re: In search of ... a lost note app

« Last post by barney on August 18, 2011, 11:06 PM »

Hi barney,

Do not worry. It is JC&MB Quicknote http://www.quicknote.de/
One of the first few apps which I load in a new/formatted machine 

BTW let kids be kids. They get less time to be themselves nowadays.

-anandcoral (August 10, 2011, 05:19 AM)

'Preciate the quick - and accurate  - response.  Unfortunately, my time got preempted, so I just got back to this  .  Actually I did finally find it - after three (3) or four (4) days <groan />, but I'd have got it much more quickly had I been able to get back to non-emergency stuff here.

It's not my favorite note app of all time - don't think I've found that one yet  - but it's just too damned handy not to have available  .

Thanks much for the information  .

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General Software Discussion / Re: In search of ... a way to kill tabs

« Last post by barney on August 17, 2011, 10:52 AM »

Hm-m-m ... I don't thimk anything is throwing tabs in before storing the note, but I'll have another look.

And that still wouldn't 'splain why trim() & ltrim() aren't doing their job after I extract the note. 

Is there some character, maybe Unicode, that represents a tab w/o actually being a tab?  Or, perhaps, a textarea [HTML] configuration that automatically prefixes content?  Yeah, I know, that's reaching, but when logic fails, sometimes the illogical will work  .

Oh, on the typos:  I'm typing this in on the fly, not pasting from the actual code - that's why there are so many missing ; and such.  However, using several different IDEs - Komodo, CodeLobster for PHP, Rapid PHP 2010 - for testing purposes assures me that there are no typos in the code.  (I just wish one of those IDEs would let me step through the code.  CodeLobster has a start on that, but ...)

One other thing ... this seemingly applies only to the textarea element.  Just did a quick test on a type="text" element - no tabs.  In hindsight, I shoulda done that long ago, but then hindsight is always so much better  .  Oh, and one text area on this page always prefixes six (6) tabs, the other five (5) tabs  .  And this seems to happen only on one page.  (I'm going through the include() files now to see if anything there might be a cause.)

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General Software Discussion / Re: In search of ... a way to kill tabs

« Last post by barney on August 17, 2011, 01:24 AM »

OK, I had tried

[Select]

$studentnote=trim($studentnote,"\t")

without success, both with and without the "\t" element.  When I tried

[Select]

$studentnote=str_replace("\t","",$studentnote)

I lost the note altogether, although the tabs were still there  .

I think I've tried every replacement function in the PHP docs, w/o success  .

As Yul Brynner once said, "Is a puzzlement."

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General Software Discussion / Re: In search of ... a way to kill tabs

« Last post by barney on August 16, 2011, 11:34 PM »

Yeah ... I was ad-libbing that, not copy-and-pasting.  Way too much code to paste, anyway.  However, the actual PHP is correct in terms of spelling - one of my favorite errors is typos or a missing ),}," or ;, so I keep a list of all vars in a separate document, and compare frequently.  However, typos won't account for the prefacing tabs in three (3) textarea constructs.  For what it's worth, I've had a friend check my code, and she doesn't find anything erroneous - apart from a few of the aforementioned typos  . 

Due to time constraints, I'm trying not to rewrite this thing from scratch, have mostly succeeded, save for this one problem.

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General Software Discussion / In search of ... a way to kill tabs

« Last post by barney on August 16, 2011, 10:41 PM »

OK, this one seems a bit stupid ... I seem to do a lot of those, don't I ?

I'm in process of rebuilding a box that crashed.  Part of that rebuilding involves rewriting segments of PHP code that were lost.  Mostly, that's going well, but there's one problem that seems unresolvable. 

This script uses MySQL as part of the record keeping.  But whenever I try to populate an HTML textarea from a text column in the tables, it's always prefaced by either five (5) or six (6) tab characters.  None of the trim() functions are effective.  I can find many Google references to adding tabbing capability, but none, so far, to eradicating them.  I've checked - and rebuilt - the tables with several different versions of MySQL, even tried different versions of PHP.  The PHP SQL is simple -

Code: PHP [Select]

1. select NoteContent from notes where NoteKey=n
2. $notes=trim($notes)
3. insert into notes (NoteContent) values (\$note\")
4. or
5. update notes set NoteContent=\"$note\" where NoteKey=n

I left out some of the script, the if/then/else structures, but what's there is the relevant stuff.  The textarea bit is just

[Select]

<... type=textarea ...><php? echo $note ?></textarea>

But every time, the textarea shows the text with leading tabs, tabs that do not exist in the table's text field.  Oh, yeah, it's not browser-specific.  I've tried FF 3.x, FF 6, IE9, Safari, Opera, all with the same result.  These tabs are pulling my cork - something that seems easily accomplished, lately -and I've run out of places to look for an answer, save for DC.

Anybody got any ideas?

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General Software Discussion / Re: Software Hall of Fame

« Last post by barney on August 16, 2011, 01:27 AM »

Yeah, PC Mag had a lotta stuff, went on for years publishing utility after utility.  Think my 1st ram disk, other than on OS-9, came from them.

At the time, say ~DOS 3.x, just building batch files was fun, sometimes remunerative.  First checkbook prog I ever built was DOS batch file, complete with GoTos ... and it worked for years!  Never could wrap my head around assembler, though, so I missed a lot in that respect.

Great fun on Delphi - the BBS, not the much later software - and CompuServe:  text only, many flame wars ... met Phil Katz, Ron(?) McAfee & Peter Norton there, another guy - Ross Greenfield? - when both viruses and utilities were starting to grow.  Went through, vicariously, the fight 'tween Katz & SEA (System Enhancement Associates), when he built the ZIP protocol and released it to Public Domain out of spite  .  Prolly my all-time nomination for utility of the aeon, though, would be Norton Commander.  It just worked!  Although a close second would be the 2nd or 3rd iteration of the Disk Doctor.  That tool would let you get some stuff done:  no over-automation, no "Are you sure?" dialogs.  It pretty much assumed you knew what you were doing and let you do it.

OK, so much for nostalgia ... back to work, damnit!

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Clipboard Help+Spell / Re: CHS Feature Idea: Application-context-specific favorites?

« Last post by barney on August 15, 2011, 09:39 PM »

Late to the fray again  .

However, that would be a very useful modification for my current usage(s).  More applicable to SQL and PHP in my case, but very useful, particularly if you might be able to engender fine control, e.g. code - IDE content? - specific.  However, even coarse control would be extremely useful.  My vote is for your brain-strain  .

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General Software Discussion / Re: Software Hall of Fame

« Last post by barney on August 15, 2011, 08:47 PM »

Sorry I missed this.  PCFile+, perhaps the original freeware/shareware relational database system:  I learned  relational theory on it as well as rudimentary SQL by using it.

I also used OS9 on a Tandy DOS 64K CoCo - multi-tasking, multi-window before Windows was, don't recall if 'twas earlier than or concurrent with DesqView.

None of 'em could hold a candle to current offerings, but for their time they were absolutely fantastic  .

Oh, yeah ... as I recall, OS9 allowed multiple OS windows - virtual machines  ? what a concept  ! - so one app crashing didn't bring down the whole system.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Stupid question ... what is the difference between != and <>?

« Last post by barney on August 13, 2011, 08:17 PM »

'Preciate the heads up anent the == and !==: never had occasion to use either, but it's nice to know  , although I'm not certain this problem goes that far  .

What I'm seeing in this code is apparently interchangeable usages of != and <>.  I remember, albeit dimly, those two methods not being equivalent, although I cannot recall why.  Maybe from VB days, or ASP, maybe Delphi?  To quote a phrase from an old Sci-Fi novel, "Is not is not not is."  Dunno, maybe that is what I recall  .

Anyway, from what you've said, I shouldn't have to worry about that particular convention when rebuilding this script.  I'd just hate to hose a database due to inadequate knowledge or because of inappropriate usages  .

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General Software Discussion / Stupid question ... what is the difference between != and <>?

« Last post by barney on August 13, 2011, 03:24 PM »

OK, I know this is stupid, but my diminished library cannot provide me an answer  .

Using PHP conventions, there are two (2) ways to indicate inequality, !$var==[somevalue] and $var<>[somevalue].

I recall from my corporate days that there is a difference 'twixt the two (2), but cannot for the life of me recall it  .  In fact, those differences may not apply to PHP - I just cannot find an adequate reference  , so I'm consulting my ultimate reference:  DC .

There's a time to use $var<> and a time to use !$var==, but I simply cannot recall the rules and rationales  .

I've been rebuilding a box for someone, and need to rebuild some PHP code as best I can - catastrophic failure combined with inadequate - dare I say inane? - backups has produced a need to rebuild some corrupted code segments.  Trying to understand the logic of the original (?) coder is made more difficult by the use of these two (2) conventions.

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Living Room / In search of ... a lost note app

« Last post by barney on August 09, 2011, 08:57 PM »

This is embarrassing .  This past weekend, I hosted a small patio party - beer, wine, grill - the usual weekend stuff.  The family that was over has - that very nearly became had! - a young son, prolly approaching twelve (12) years.  He has reinforced my belief in the bunghole theory (When a child reaches three (3), you place said child in a barrel, feeding through the bunghole - when said child turns eighteen (18), you drive in the bung!).

Anyway, the little ... darling  ... decided to play in the computer room.  I've managed to correct most all that he did - I think! - but one thing I cannot recover.  'Twas prior to my weekly full backup, unfortunately.

There was/is a note-taking app that produces a small bar, 'bout the size of an em dash on the screen.  When you mouse over it, it pops up a note window, dual pane, with the left pane holding an outline-ish structure and the right pane holding notes related to the selected left pane item.  I don't remember the name of it.  I has several Windows keys that I now need to recover, or I'm toast.  If it helps, the note window had a kinda, sorta purple background. 

As mentioned, this is embarrassing .  Does anyone happen to know the name of this little beastie?  The data file is still extant - I had better sense than to restore - and recoverable if I can just figure out what app to reload.  It still is on the NAS, but w/o a name I'll play Hell finding it out of several thousand files.  (I've got to find a decent tagging system.)

P.S. I hate meddling, undisciplined children!

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General Software Discussion / Re: In search of ... opinions/reviews of IDEs & Editors for Web code

« Last post by barney on August 09, 2011, 12:34 AM »

OK, that's not fair  .  Cream is a no-no, but I'm Vim-illiterate  and you want me to create what I assume is a Vim macro?  Have you ever read Great Expectations  ?

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General Software Discussion / Re: In search of ... opinions/reviews of IDEs & Editors for Web code

« Last post by barney on August 08, 2011, 07:15 PM »

Thanks again .

That link led me to Cream.  Damn you  , you're gonna make me work[/] .

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General Software Discussion / Re: In search of ... opinions/reviews of IDEs & Editors for Web code

« Last post by barney on August 08, 2011, 06:19 PM »

Just pulled down Sublime Text, 64-bit portable v2 beta.  Installed it - can you say that about portables  ? - and took a quick look.  Looks good just according to what it purports to handle.  Never heard of it before, so there's another one to check  .  Thanks.

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General Software Discussion / Re: In search of ... opinions/reviews of IDEs & Editors for Web code

« Last post by barney on August 08, 2011, 05:15 PM »

Tried DreamWeaver when it first came out.  Bought it.  Tried for a week.  Threw it away and went back to HomeSite  .  As you say, it's a designer tool, and I am not a designer  .
I've had pretty much the same experience with NetBeans as with Eclipse - and Aptana, forgot to mention that one, sorry - the difference being that I could get it to run, albeit slowly.

Not familiar with Notepad++.  Tend to use PSPad, TreePadX, or NoteTab Pro for text editing chores.

Still playing with HippoEdit off and on, but not familiar enough yet to say yea! or nay!, but it's looking to be competition for Komodo  .

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General Software Discussion / Re: In search of ... opinions/reviews of IDEs & Editors for Web code

« Last post by barney on August 08, 2011, 02:44 PM »

Eclipse is funny - at least for me  .  I've run it on several Linux distros, but was never able to get it functional on WinXP or Win7 boxes.  While I suspect it was a Java issue - conflicts with other Java-based software would indicate that - I was never able to get a functional install.  However, this being a [relatively] new box, I'll try it again.  It's worth trying just to say, "I made it work," if for no other reason  .  But if it can be made to perform as it did with Linux, well worth the effort.  Guess I should have specified a Win7 box, huh  ?

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General Software Discussion / In search of ... opinions/reviews of IDEs & Editors for Web code

« Last post by barney on August 08, 2011, 01:49 PM »

(There's prolly a topic already here, but I couldn't find it  .)

Don't want to start any wars, but I'd really like to get opinions on the various IDEs and editors that are useful for Web code.  At the moment, I'm using Komodo Edit (the IDE version seems aimed at team development), CodeLobster, Rapid PHP 2010, Code Chameleon, Coffee Cup HTML Editor, HippoEdit, just to name a few.

Well ... I'm using Komodo, primarily, and dabbling with the others as time permits.  Probably my all-time favorite was HomeSite, but Nick Bradbury went in anther direction, so updates and new capabilities are no longer available.  The others previously mentioned all have certain, mostly different, strengths and weaknesses.

What I'd like to see here is what other tools are used by the DC folk, and why they prefer them.  It simply is not possible for an individual to be aware of, much less test, all such tools currently extant.

Most of what I do now is PHP/JavaScript/HTML(5), but I'm tempted to get back into ASP & VB for a couple-two-t'ree projects, and I'd like to [try to] learn C#.  So I'm looking for a single tool that'll work well for multiple environments, if possible.

Yes, I've read a number of online reviews, but had no gauge as to the trustworthiness of the authors.  And the best part about some of the tools I've tried was the review  .  Since there are a number of developers on DC (Gee, who'da guessed  ?!?, and since their products tend to be above average (based upon NANY products, as well as looking at their Web pages), I thought to bring the question here. 

It's understood that answers to such questions tend to be subjective, just like politics and choosing a vehicle  , and thus may not be as appropriate for others as for the reviewer.

I'd really like to find the Philosopher's Stone of coding environments, but that's prolly a reach too far  .

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Living Room / Re: YACT - Yet Another Copyright Thread

« Last post by barney on August 06, 2011, 10:50 PM »

It's not Internet access the government is afraid of. It's cheap, ubiquitous, unrestricted, unmonitored, and open access that scares them out of their minds.

-40hz (July 01, 2011, 09:19 AM)

Which is also why sites (and companies) all around from Google to 4chan regularly cooperate with the FBI in handing over "evidence" to be used against you.

-zridling (August 06, 2011, 06:28 PM)

Tee-hee  ,  Minds me of Jackie Gleason's evadince in Smokey and the Bandit (an old Burt Reynolds feel-good film, if you're not familiar with it), and would be equally as funny if it didn't hit so close to home  .